My name is Courtney Sanson, hiroho nongapi meterarowa i come from the far north in a small
little town called Kaikohe. I've recently finished my bachelor of sciences majoring in earth sciences
at the university of Waikato, and i'm currently going to do my master's in environmental sciences
at victoria university. So i have this uh picture here so this picture has a bit of a story. Um
this is a mud volcano in as an intern we got to go up here and be a part of the nohotaya poterarawa,
where we essentially as a go on a wananga and teach maori youth about science. And it was just
like in someone's random like paddock and there's just like this big mound of mud like bubbling
and we're just like well what what the heck is this here for and um it was a sign that um
like of potential oil that was nearby. But um local iwi said no we're going to put a standpoint
that it's just going to be for non-commercial use. So yeah i think it's just like really cool that
you get to go on these opportunities go somewhere i know, like one of the interns he was from Nelson
and he never went up to the far north before and he was quite shocked but
you know you get to go to like cool places like governor which i think not many people
go to not you know not further up north. Ideally i would like to own my own business.
Maybe do environmental consultancies work and get to work along with my iwi and hapu
and help them throughout all the nice sciencey processes and stuff.
I'm Emma, i'm at victoria university of wellington and i'm studying environmental studies and
psychology. I thought i wasn't smart enough to do science so i went for environmental studies.
And now i've because of this scholarship that i've done i am going to do a masters of
environmental science. Um so i am smart enough to do science. And so i've been working
sort of joined between the ice core facility and the organic geochemistry lab and we're looking
at primary productions like phytoplankton and microbial life in sea ice in Antarctica.
The negative 20 degree freezer was pretty it gave me a bit of a shock the first time i went
in there so cold. So yeah i've got this photo of me working in the um ice core facility um i'm just
sorting some samples but what we get to wear which is pretty cool is we have like a polar fleece a
puffer jacket and then a whole bunny suit over the top um and then you get these really cool boots
that um they're like huge and they're like steel steel capped and they're quite cool.
I came into the job like into the scholarship really nervous and not sure that I could actually
deliver what was needed um and I'd never done any lab work before and i got thrown into the ice core
facility and into the lab which was awesome and it just gave me this whole new perspective of
like what you can do with just like some passion and enthusiasm.
I'm Joe I'm from Victoria university i've been working at GNS over the summer.
So this is a photo of um Te Puia up in Rotarua.
It's where I went when I when it was up at Wairakei in Taupo, we went out there with
the field text just surveying some of the geothermal features. It was cool like I had
been to Te Puia before but not like that like we got to go over the fences and we got to do our
measurements, um and i was just with some of the field tech sticking my stick in the water
taking measurements. It's quite fun actually. The work that i've been doing is it's been a lot of
calling out regional councils and seeing what the actual geothermal use they know about and
so the project overarching while my part is just collecting the data talking to people. In the
grand scheme of things the idea is going hey this is where we use some geothermal features,
this is the types of geology that lead to that where else might this be underutilized.
Getting to know some of the people around GNS has been really great like getting to know
years of connections and seeing you know what actually um you know possibly where i could be
and maybe I don't know five years time or whatever, after i finish my degree.
So my name is Li-Yen Thor and I'm originally from Malaysia and I'm on a summer research
scholarship with GNS and Vic. And I'm basically doing paleoclimate reconstruction using
like sediment biomarkers. And this is at the national isotope center at GNS.
So this is a picture of me in the lab, so this is how my work and NIC looks like every day,
and here you can see i'm actually holding vials and i actually brought this as well.
So it's really cute and it's really tiny i think it really represents what i do in the lab, because
we go through hundreds and hundreds of these and we basically put our little samples in them
and so now we have like boxes filled with these and they're so cute. I'm really honored
and thankful um for Vic and GNS, um sorry can i do that again? I was like what am I saying?
I'm definitely really thankful for GNS and Victoria university for hosting this,
it's a really cool job to have and I have like the best supervisor but he's so nice, and I also
have a really amazing lab partner so it just makes you know work really easy and really fun.
So my name is Shontelle Nahona, I am at Victoria university of wellington studying a bachelor of
science majoring in marine biology and ecology and biodiversity. I want to be a scientist
because maori have always been you know natural scientists they naturally observe things and they
naturally interpret things and that's basically what science is, and you know we we actually
hold a lot of power being mauri especially in the science field and GNS has made me realize that.
So I created a game while I was here at GNS and my game was created to teach kids about
the conditions that forums live in or are fossilized in forums are microscopic
organisms we called it forameo because it's kind of like yu-gi-oh cards but basically it's
a battle game and each forum can only live in certain conditions. But yeah it's just
interactive and a fun way to learn about things that you can't really see with the naked eye.
It actually ended up working for quite a few of the kids that weren't engaged.
In 10 years time hopefully I'm working at GNS to be honest, I'm going to take Chris's spot.
Don't show him this!
No no.
Chris Hollis is my supervisor.